<h2 id="">College students no longer prepared for life</h2><p id="">Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt <a href="https://bigthink.com/series/the-big-think-interview/raise-resilient-kids/" target="_blank" id="">states</a>, in his video "Want antifragile kids? Get out of their way," that Gen-Zers, those born from 1995 onward, are much more fragile and dependent than children and young adults of previous generations. </p><p id="">Children of this generation have been kept at home longer, denied the free play and independence that children have traditionally had until shortly before they are to go to college or work, and they aren't prepared to be independent and make decisions on their own. They are very fragile, weak, and easily traumatized, by their own admission. &nbsp;</p><blockquote id=""><em id="">Beginning with kids born in 1995, they spend a lot less time going out with friends. They don't get a driver's license as often. They don't drink as much. They don't go out on dates. They don't work for money as much. What are they doing? They're spending a lot more time sitting on their beds with their devices interacting that way. These are the first kids who got social media when they were 13, roughly. They were subjected to much more anti-bullying content in their schools, much more adult supervision. They were raised in the years after 9/11. They were given much less recess and free play. With No Child Left Behind, there was much more testing pushed down into earlier grades. </em></blockquote><blockquote id=""><em id="">So in a lot of ways, Gen Z has been denied the independence, the independent play that previous generations got. Gen Z has been raised with what's called 'moral dependency.' There's always been an adult there for them to go to, and so we don't know if this is for sure the reason, but they seem to have more difficulty working out problems on their own. </em><strong id=""><em id="">When we protect children from unpleasantness, from conflicts, from insults, from teasing, from exclusion, we are setting them up to be weak, to be more easily damaged, to be more easily discouraged. </em></strong><em id="">(Emphasis added.)</em></blockquote><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QvrMNDv6iYU?si=EGngY3Nesv64Fos9&amp;clip=UgkxxlJPqBv4XjmylhU185WP8VODB2TzRO4k&amp;clipt=EIqPAxj0zAY" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p id="">When they get to college they are not prepared to fend for themselves, Haidt explains.</p><blockquote id=""><em id="">They're just not used to being independent. When they get to college, they need more help. They're asking adults for more help. Protect me from this. Punish him for saying that. Protect me from that book. Students are thinking in terms of safety and danger. Students say, by their own admission, they are more fragile. They use a language of fragility, weakness, trauma, triggering. They see triggers all over the world.</em></blockquote><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:810px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="810px"><div id=""><img src="https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/66450044188dfe741d77c31e/66b315bdf3b66d1dce8497ed_66aa812d8d251a9103ebb029_6696c1fa6482107b55957bde_picture%252520focus%252520bar.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><h3 id="">Trump wins, college students crumble</h3><p id="">This fragility may have been responsible for many college students' immature reactions to President Trump's election in 2016; that colleges and professors in a show of partisan politics, actually coddled them is shocking. <em id="">WSJ</em> (Wall Street Journal) <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-WB-66544" target="_blank" id="">reported</a> at the time that, among other colleges, Cornell University students had a cry-in at a major campus thoroughfare; Tufts University held an event, planned before the election results were known, to let students write and draw about their election reactions; University of Kansas reminded students that therapy dogs are available every other Wednesday for comfort; a teacher of multi-ethnic studies at University of Michigan allowed students into her office to play with Play-Doh and coloring in coloring books to comfort and distract themselves.</p><blockquote id=""><em id="">“People are frustrated, people are just really sad and shocked,” said Trey Boynton, the director of multi-ethnic student affairs at the University of Michigan. “A lot of people are feeling like there has been a loss. We talked about grief today and about the loss of hope that this election would solidify the progress that was being made.”</em></blockquote><blockquote id=""><em id="">There was a steady flow of students entering Ms. Boynton’s office Wednesday. They spent the day sprawled around the center, playing with Play-Doh and coloring in coloring books, as they sought comfort and distraction.</em></blockquote><p id="">Strikingly, students in Ph.D. level courses weren't expected to be able to handle the election results, either. Students in Morgan Polikoff's Ph.D. statistics course were told that they didn't have to attend the class after the election if they didn't want to and six said they weren't up to it.</p><blockquote id=""><em id="">Morgan Polikoff, a professor at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education, also canceled his Wednesday class. He told the 11 students in his Ph.D. statistics course on election night that they didn’t have to come if they didn’t want to; by the time he woke up, six said they weren’t up for meeting.</em></blockquote><p id="">It is no wonder, perhaps, that they were called "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_(slang)" target="_blank" id="">snowflakes</a>."</p><blockquote id=""><em id="">The touchy-feely approach won some catty comments from skeptics, calling students “snow-flakes” for their inability to handle the result. But schools said the concerns were real for many students.</em>‍</blockquote><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:810px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="810px"><div id=""><img src="https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/66450044188dfe741d77c31e/66b315bdf3b66d1dce8497ed_66aa812d8d251a9103ebb029_6696c1fa6482107b55957bde_picture%252520focus%252520bar.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><h3 id="">Practicing independence is too risky for parents</h3><p id="">Haidt sees children's loss of independence as having begun in the 1990s after 1980s programming showed it to be too risky to leave children out on their own, for fear of being kidnapped. </p><blockquote id=""><em id="">In the 1990s, as the crime rate was plummeting, as American life was getting safer and safer, Americans freaked out and thought that if they take their eyes off their children, the children will be abducted. The fear was stoked by cable TV in the 1980s; there were a few high-profile abductions.</em> </blockquote><blockquote id=""><em id="">But it's not until the 1990s that we really start locking kids up and saying, "You cannot be outside until you're 14 or 15." Lenore Skenazy, who wrote the book, "Free Range Kids." She became famous as "America's worst mom" because in 2009, she let her 9-year-old son ride the New York City subway. Not only did he survive, he was thrilled. He felt he'd learned something. He felt he could go out into the world.</em></blockquote><blockquote id=""><em id="">We took this essential period of childhood from about 8 to 12, when kids throughout history have practiced independence, have gotten into adventures, have made rafts and floated down the Mississippi River- we took that period and said, "You don't get to practice independence," until it's too late, until that period is over.</em></blockquote><p id="">On college campuses students are being taught to follow, rather than question their feelings, Haidt continues. But being able to look for and approach things from different perspectives is needed for critical thinking and mental health.</p><blockquote id=""><em id="">What we've begun seeing on campus is that students are encouraged to follow their feelings. If they feel offended by something, then they have been attacked. They're supposed to not question those feelings. But part of wisdom is the ability to say, "Now, wait a second. Are there other ways to look at this?" These are crucial skills for critical thinking. These are crucial skills for mental health. And we need to be teaching young people at all stages to question their first interpretations, look for evidence, and improve the way they interpret the world.</em></blockquote><h3 id="">Teaching kids to deal with diversity is key</h3><p id="">According to Haidt, educational systems must help children to handle divergent opinions, not coddle them.</p><blockquote id=""><em id="">The bottom line is that if we want to raise a generation of kids who can deal with diversity of all kinds, who can go out into a world that's physically actually quite safe but yet full of offensive, offensive content, we need to get our educational practices in line with some very basic, important psychological principles. They are: We are all prone to motivated reasoning and the confirmation bias, and we're all prone to tribalism, and black-and-white thinking. We need to be educating kids so that they do less of this stuff.</em></blockquote><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QvrMNDv6iYU?si=X7TLQ1zgFD0dlEMZ&amp;clip=UgkxHu80fgkhjaRN0Z5FM5xtMOr-PhuZ2E4K&amp;clipt=EOXoDBjEvRA" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><h4 id="">Can CBT help?</h4><p id="">One solution he believes, is CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) which he says is an easy way to teach high school and college students to examine and break up negative beliefs.</p><blockquote id=""><em id="">CBT is just a way of teaching people skills to do exactly that, to question their feelings, to look for evidence. So in CBT, you learn the names of these distortions, about 15 or so distortions. You can guess what they mean: Catastrophizing, black-and-white thinking, labeling, mind reading. Aaron Beck, a psychiatrist in the 1960s, noticed that depressed and anxious people have a way of constructing these beliefs that, "I'm bad. The future is bad. My future- the world is a bad place," and they're mutually reinforcing. And this is the way the world feels to them. And if you can improve their thinking and break up those beliefs, they're released from the depression. Cognitive behavioral therapy is not more effective than several other treatments. There are-most treatments are about equally effective- but it's so easy to learn!</em></blockquote><p id="">View the entire video below:</p><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QvrMNDv6iYU?si=FA_FkaU5kuWrFZMd" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p id="">‍<em id=""> </em></p><p id="">View more at Johnathan Haidt's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/jonathanhaidt1" target="_blank" id="">YouTube channel</a>.</p>

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<p id="">Swiss technology company Bühler has teamed up with NRGene Canada, a subsidiary of Israeli genomics firm NRGene Technologies Ltd, to bring insect protein to North America.</p><h2 id="">The North American Insect Center</h2><p id="">The two firms last week inaugurated the North American Insect Center (NAIC), a bug food research and demonstration center in Saskatchewan. The NAIC aims to become a hub for the bug food industry, where investors and clients can participate in workshops, seminars, training sessions, and customer trials.&nbsp;</p><p id="">Food manufacturers, for example, can visit the NAIC to discover how the Black Soldier Fly (BSF) can serve as an alternative source of protein in snacks and meals. The center is equipped with a cutting-edge lab where researchers will develop various types of insect protein and study how they can be included in different food product streams.</p><p id="">"The development of insect proteins as a sustainable protein source presents significant business opportunities," Bühler's Grains &amp; Food CEO Johannes Wick said in a <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/buhler-and-nrgene-canada-open-north-american-insect-center-302211339.html">press release</a>. "This new facility will open the market up for start-ups and established businesses alike, bringing together the science, tools, technologies, and knowledge needed to further optimize the process to produce protein-rich insect larvae."</p><p id="">Bühler CTO Ian Roberts said the objective of the NAIC is to "develop the sustainable protein sources that will meet the needs of the nearly 10 billion people comprising the world's population in 2050.”</p><h2 id="">Bug food inches closer to mainstream</h2><p id="">Eating insects is promoted as a climate initiative by globalist strongholds like the World Economic Forum, which <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/good-grub-why-we-might-be-eating-insects-soon" id="">anticipates</a> the day when “we can all buy a bag of edible insects at our local grocery store.”</p><p id="">The NAIC is likely to significantly accelerate existing attempts to make bug food mainstream. In nearby Ontario, a $6.5 million insect protein facility houses an estimated four billion crickets and produces 13 million kilograms of cricket protein per year.</p><p id="">In October, Tyson Foods <a href="https://www.thegoldreport.com/news/food-giant-enters-insect-market" id="">announced</a> its foray into the insect protein market by partnering with Netherlands-based bug food manufacturer Protix.</p><p id="">In addition to a cash investment in Protix, Tyson Foods announced that the two companies have agreed to build a large facility that will be used to make bug food.</p><p id="">“The to-be-built facility in the U.S. will house an enclosed system to support all aspects of insect protein production including the breeding, incubating, and hatching of insect larvae,” said Tyson Foods in a <a href="https://www.tysonfoods.com/news/news-releases/2023/10/tyson-foods-announces-partnership-protix-more-sustainable-protein" id="">statement</a>. “In addition to ingredients for the aquaculture and pet food industries, processed larvae may also be used as ingredients within livestock and plant feed.”</p><p id="">Protix, which in 2015 was <a href="https://protix.eu/wp-content/uploads/Press-release-2015-Technology-Pioneer.pdf" id="">selected</a> as one of the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers, manufactures approximately 14,000 metric tons of bug food per year under the pretext of “fighting climate change.”&nbsp;</p><p id="">‍</p>

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<p id="">Whistleblowers say the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has placed former US representative and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard on a terror watchlist in its Quiet Skies program, <em id="">Uncover DC </em><a href="https://uncoverdc.com/2024/08/04/fams-whistleblowers-report-tulsi-gabbard-on-quiet-skies-list" id="">reported</a> Sunday.</p><h2 id="">Gabbard tailed immediately after criticizing ‘national security state,’ report says</h2><p id="">Quiet Skies is a surveillance program that has the stated aim of keeping American travelers safe from domestic terrorists, which the TSA often defines as supporters of President Donald Trump. Gabbard, who was <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/03/09/trump-2024-vp-list-who-shortlist" id="">speculated</a> to be on Trump’s VP shortlist, seems to have made the TSA’s list as well.</p><p id="">Whistleblowers told Air Marshal National Council (AMNC) Executive Director Sonya LaBosco that Gabbard is secretly tailed on every flight by three Federal Air Marshals, a plainclothes TSA supervisor, two explosive detection canine teams, and a transportation security specialist in explosives. LaBosco has said that at least one whistleblower is willing to go on record with documentation.</p><p id="">Federal Air Marshals were reportedly first assigned to tail Gabbard on July 23rd, the day after Gabbard publicly criticized the Biden-Harris administration, the “national security state,” and the “military-industrial complex” in a <em id="">Fox News </em>interview. On July 25th, she boarded her first flight secretly stalked by Federal Air Marshals.</p><h2 id="">‘We’re not doing our regular missions’</h2><p id="">In November, LaBosco confirmed that Air Marshals have been busy tailing every person who flew into Washington, DC around January 6th even if they were not present at the Capitol rally. TSA operatives have been designating many of those people as “domestic terrorists” in the computer database.</p><p id="">Christine Crowder, for instance, made the Quiet Skies watchlist because she was in DC on January 6th, even though she did not attend the Capitol rally. Crowder is married to an active Federal Air Marshal. An infant boy has also been enrolled in the program because his father, AJ Fischer, attended the Capitol protest.</p><p id="">“[Federal Air Marshals] are not flying right now. The only missions that we are doing are ‘Quiet Skies’ missions and those are missions that are following the January 2021 people,” LaBosco told <em id="">Fox News</em>. “So we’re either on the border for illegal immigrants or we’re following folks from January 2021. We’re not doing our regular missions where we’re out there looking for the bad guys so for now most flights you’re not gonna have Air Marshals.”</p><p id="">LaBosco said she has personally seen the TSA manipulate the database so that anyone suspected of being a political dissident is marked as having breached the Capitol building.</p><p id="">“We’ve caught [the TSA] red-handed and they lied,” she said. “They’ve put indicators inside the computer system, they’ve manipulated the national database computer system and put that individuals . . . broke into the Capitol. That’s what they’re putting on there. I’ve seen these orders and I know exactly what they’re doing.”</p><h2 id="">The SSSS designation</h2><p id="">Those who are part of the Quiet Skies program are unaware of it. Sometimes, however, their tickets bear the letters “SSSS,” which singles them out for Secondary Security Screening Selection. LaBosco said that those with an SSSS designation should know they will be “denied rights” that other travelers received.</p><p id="">“Their number one goal is for you to miss your flight,” she said. “They don’t want you to get where you’re going from point A to point B.”</p><p id="">Travelers on the SSSS list are followed by a minimum of three Air Marshals on every flight, she added. Sometimes the Marshals follow the targets when they leave their houses for the airport. Because so many Air Marshals are now being assigned to follow American taxpayers who were in Washington, DC around January 6th, LaBosco says there are not enough Air Marshals to follow “bad guys.”</p><p id="">‍</p>

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